Congratulations to Leopoldo J. Cabassa and team on having their important work on reducing cardiovascular risk among folks with SMI featured in the Director, National Institute of Mental Health’s message. You can read the original paper here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35113479/

Important paper out by our Assistant Director, Morgan Shields, and co-author, Mara Hollander, PhD The first known study to describe regulatory complaints from US psychiatric facilities The first known study to examine differences in complaints, restraint, seclusion by IMD status

This is the week! IRIfellowship will meet me in St Louis. Safe travels everyone. See you soon for a week of learning, networking, collaboration, and having fun. Byron J. Powell Leopoldo J. Cabassa WashUBrownSchool Center for Mental Health Services Research

Four ways we love policy in implementation science: context, strategy, something to implement, something to adapt. Thanks to the great Jonathan Purtle.#IRI2023 ⁦Center for Mental Health Services Research⁩ ⁦National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)⁩

Thursday morning kick off with deep thoughts about sustainability. Thanks to Rachel Shelton. IRI is all about advancing the science. #IRI2023 ⁦Center for Mental Health Services Research⁩ ⁦National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)⁩ ⁦Dr. Rachel Shelton⁩

The room where it happens. Grateful to convene #IRI2023 Summer Institute in ⁦@WUSTL⁩ Hillman Hall’s Fox-Clark Forum. Looking up, down, east, west from a space designed for creative and collaborative work. ⁦WashUBrownSchool⁩ ⁦Center for Mental Health Services Research⁩

Happy pride from LGBTQ+ health policy and health services researchers (and their allies) at AcademyHealth!! #ARM23 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Next week we are hosting our first Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) Journal Club, led by Leopoldo J. Cabassa and @daniadamsPhD. We'll be reading a paper on practice considerations for PAT in Social Work. DM us if you are interested in joining!

Please consider supporting this new fellowship that will be housed in CMHSR WashUBrownSchool The fellowship will support MSW students in conducting applied research in areas related to LGBTQ+ youth, housing/homelessness, and suicide and mental health services

An exciting and remarkable funding opportunity from NIH supporting research on health disparities impacting people with disabilities caused by #ableism. This is a long-overdue mind shift for biomedical researchers and a much-needed area of research! grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/r…

Evaluating change in a pressured healthcare system: a cross-sectional study of implementation outcomes using routine data indicators and proxies #ImpSciComms #impsci …ntationsciencecomms.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Now in print! Last Page: How Male Allies Can Support the Advancement of Women in Academic Medicine (with Kristina Dzara, PhD, MMSc and Stephanie Mueller) journals.lww.com/academicmedici… via Academic Medicine

Nice to see this pub out! Great to learn from Mira Snyder, Meredith Boyd, Madison Walker, & @CaraCLewis on this! For more on Cara and colleagues' iMBC study, see the posts below. WashU Center for Dissemination and Implementation Center for Mental Health Services Research IRIfellowship

Ableism in academia and research is pervasive! "I think it was hard for them [HHMI] to imagine that someone with a disability could do outstanding work in science,” says @Vivian_Cheung2 The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…

Congratulations, Dr. Cory Bradley is the Lorde Bald'ubois of Essex, Amelia (Amy) Van Pelt, PhD, MPH, & Jessica Schleider, PhD! I'm excited for you all and for Northwestern MSS! Dr. Cory Bradley is the Lorde Bald'ubois of Essex, you will be sorely missed in St. Louis, but I hope the visits are frequent in both directions! IRIfellowship WashU Center for Dissemination and Implementation

Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) seeks nominations for and confidential expressions of interest in the position of Founding Dean for a new School of Public Health. See position description here: provost.wustl.edu/washu-new-scho…

I will be reviewing applications to potentially accept a third (😮😎) PhD student into my lab in the Counseling Psych program @lehighedu You can find more about our lab here: healtogetherlab.org

"Bridges and Mechanisms: Integrating Systems Science Thinking into Implementation Research" is out in Annual Reviews! #impsci Doug Luke, Alejandra Paniagua-Avila CPHSS WashU Center for Dissemination and Implementation Center for Mental Health Services Research WashUBrownSchool IRIfellowship @HIGH_IRI_WUSTL SIRC annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

Congratulations, Morgan Shields and colleagues! Center for Mental Health Services Research WashUBrownSchool

Congrats to IRI alum Jonathan Purtle Jonathan Purtle and good news for the field!